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Movers and Shakers

Christiaan Smits has become EU affairs manager for AIG Companies, in Europe and the Confederation of Independent States. He joins from the Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA).

Spanish Socialist MEP Josep Borrell, who was until January president of the European Parliament, has been appointed chair of the Global Progressive Forum, an organisation which aims to create global alliances between socialist politicians in government and opposition, civil society organisations, trade unions, think-tanks and foundations, academics, ethical businesses and other progressive political forces. He takes over from Danish MEP Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the Party of European Socialists.

Jim Currie, a former European Commission director-general for the environment, has joined the Brussels office of the public affairs company Burson-Marsteller as a part-time senior adviser. Currie left the Commission in 2001, having been head of cabinet to Leon Brittan, acting head of the Commission’s delegation in Washington, director-general for customs and taxation, before heading the environment department.

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